MARQUEE OVERSEAS player Kane Williamson says it is imperative Barbados Tridents make home advantage count as they prepare for their pivotal home leg of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) starting tomorrow.
Tridents have had a difficult road trip, ending with two wins from six games to be fifth in the six-team standings, and will host Guyana Amazon Warriors (tomorrow), St Lucia Stars (Thursday), Trinbago Knight Riders (Saturday) and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots (Sunday).

CANTERBURY – Jermaine Blackwood continued to press his case for a return to the Test side with another half-century while Shai Hope was again among the runs as West Indies rallied against Kent on the opening day of their three-day tour game yesterday.
Opting to bat first at Kent County Ground, the Windies fought back from a position of 78 for four to be bowled out for 265 in their first innings late in the day.

KIERON POLLARD lashed a belligerent half-century but it was not enough to prevent Barbados Tridents from sliding to a defeat by 12 runs against Jamaica Talawahs in the fifth match of the Caribbean Premier League yesterday.
The captain belted 62 off 33 balls that contained six sixes but the Tridents, chasing 155 to beat the Tallawahs for the second successive day, were dismissed for 142 at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.

ON THE EVE of the Caribbean Premier League, it has not yet been confirmed if the tournament will be televised on the island’s only television station, the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
When contacted on Wednesday, head of television Cecily Clarke-Richmond said she was unable to say for sure if CBC would be televising the matches, but would be in a better position to confirm by the following day.

CHELMSFORD – Kemar Roach’s impressive five-wicket haul and Roston Chase’s second half-century highlighted the final day of West Indies’ drawn three-day first-class game against English County Essex yesterday.
Roach added two wickets to his overnight tally to end with five for 43, as Essex rallied to declare their first innings on 185 for nine at the County Ground.
Paul Walter, at No. 7, held the innings together with an unbeaten 68 after it tottered at 56 for six in the morning session.

RAIN DENIED Barbados the opportunity of recording a fourth consecutive win and securing the Regional Under-15 cricket title, when the contest against Guyana, played at the KMV Oval in Lakes, St Andrew, yesterday, was abandoned at 4:45 pm due to rain.
Both teams were...
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CHELMSFORD, England – Fast bowler Kemar Roach erased any doubt about his form and fitness with a brilliant spell which brightened an otherwise dour second day of the West Indies three-day tour game against Essex, yesterday.
Only two hours play were possible at Essex...
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CONDE RILEY was elected as the new Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) president last night in his third attempt to secure the sport’s top local administrative post.
In one of the most eagerly anticipated elections battles in recent years, this one was triggered by...
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CONDE RILEY is the new president of the Barbados Cricket Association.
The experienced cricket administrator was elected at the 15th special meeting of members on Thursday night after convincingly brushing aside the challenge of former first vice-president Deighton...
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BROTHERS Kyle and Shai Hope were given a fitting send-off to England by their local club ESA Field Pickwick and their sponsors at an informal ceremony on Tuesday night at the clubhouse, at FourSquare Oval.
With representative of ESA Field, Louis Griffith, indicating...
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A magnificent partnership between Tremaine Dowrich of St Leonard’s Boys’ School and Christ Church Foundation’s Jakeem Forde led Barbados Under-15 to a great start in their quest to win their fourth, and the first on home soil, Cricket West Indies Under-15 Tournament...
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A SURPRISE declaration by ESA Field Pickwick ended in disaster after ICBL Empire accepted the challenge and won by eight wickets on the final day of their Barbados Cricket Association’s second round Elite Division match yesterday.
The hosts were tearing the Bank...
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HARARE – Bhaskar Yadram extended his fine of form with another half-century as West Indies Under-19s made a winning start to their three-match One-Day International series against Zimbabwe Under-19s with a 39-run victory yesterday.
The 17-year-old right-hander top-scored...
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LONDON – England won their fourth Women’s World Cup when Anya Shrubsole took six wickets to clinch a nine-run victory over India amid delirious scenes at a packed Lord’s on Sunday.
The home side looked in danger of defeat as India chased down their total of 228-7,...
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A NUMBER OF changes have been made to the original fixtures for the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Under-15 Competition which is being contested in Barbados for the first time.
St Catherine's Club, which previously hosted matches when the Regional Under-19 Tournament...
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SOUTHAMPTON – Exciting Barbadian seamer Jofra Archer snatched career-best Twenty20 figures as he helped fire Sussex to a comfortable victory over Hampshire, in the English T20 Blast here Thursday.
Playing at the Ageas Bowl in the South Group, the 22-year-old right-armer...
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ST JOHN’S – Fresh from the Under-17 Regional Title, Trinidad and Tobago are ready to defend their title in the Under-19 three-day tournament, set to start in St Kitts next Monday.
Guyana will also defend their 50-over title, with that format beginning on August 15....
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DURBAN – West Indies Under-19s head coach, Graeme West, has praised the resolve of his players after they produced a sterling comeback to snatch a dramatic last-over victory over South Africa Under-19s and take the five-match Youth One-Day International series 3-2 here...
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PORT OF SPAIN – Trinidad and Tobago retained their Regional Under-17 title after all three final round matches were abandoned because of heavy rain from the passage of Tropical Storm Don here Tuesday.
The hosts ended on 19.8 points with Barbados second on 16 and...
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ST JOHN’S – Cricket West Indies has announced yesterday the match schedule for the England Lions Tour of the Caribbean next February.
The Lions, the official name of the England A-Team, will face their regional counterparts in a series of three “Tests” and three...
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LONG-STANDING board member Winston Stafford is hoping his loyalty, experience in administration, plans for infrastructural improvement of clubs, coaching education and training for ground staff, will land him the post of honorary secretary of the Barbados Cricket Association...
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THEY’RE FIVE years apart but there is no real distance between the Hope brothers.
Kyle, 28, and Shai, 23, don’t only possess the identical shoe size but have also been walking a similar path throughout their lives.
It all reached a high point when the two Barbadians...
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ST JOHN’S – Cricket West Indies has announced today the match schedule for the Sri Lanka “A” Tour of the Caribbean in October.
The Sri Lankans will face West Indies “A” in a series of three “Tests” and three One-day matches – to be played between October 11 and November...
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ST JOHN’S – The Selection Panel of Cricket West Indies today named a 15-member Windies Test squad for the Tour of England, starting later this month.
Opening batsman Kyle Hope and left-handed all-rounder Raymon Reifer are the only two uncapped players in the squad...
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A NUMBER of Barbadians will serve on the 12 committees assembled by Cricket West Indies (CWI) to provide policy guidelines for the daily operations of the regional body’s secretariat over the next two years.
In a release yesterday, CWI listed committees for finance;...
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A DISCREPANCY related to the age of one of the selected players for the national Under-15 cricket team has been spotted, avoiding what could have resulted in massive embarrassment for host country Barbados.
Investigations by WEEKENDSPORT reveal that Kobe Hoyte of...
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